Male Characters

I had to cast 3 male characters:

1. The main character, the video is about his life and the narrative is all about him

2. two other friends that come in and out and play a minor part in the narrative

I have to cast one female character to play the role of the girlfriend

These are my male characters and their profiles

Lead

Name: Sam Lever

Age: 17

Sam is 17 and quite stereotypical for a teenager. He doesn't mind being on camera and can I believe can play the role well.

My other two characters are just teenagers again but of whom I can rely on filming and also, one has a car, which is imperative as their is a driving scene.

Name: Joe Joyce

Age: 18

He can drive

Name: Mark Farrelly (Me)

Age: 17

I will definitely be there and as I have to film also, I will not be in it much.

My Animatic

I have done a full storyboard of my plans and edited it into an animatic, just like I have done with the "Green Light" video underneath. This is going to allow me to visualise the shots far better and now I have a physically valid plan to aid me when filming. Now I will write my filming schedule, locations etc, before editing it into a rough cut and eventually a final film.

I think that this looks quite good and is motivating me into getting on with the main preparation and filming.

Animatic - Green Light - Roll Deep

For part of the Research process we needed to learn how to create storyboards/animatic. I did this stage using the help of a group, which consisted of myself and two other lads who are also producing A2 music video coursework this year, Samuel Welton and Pietro Melfi. First of all we used a song called "Green light" by Roll Deep and looked at their official music video. We choose this video because it was the number 1 in the UK chart at the time, and is a fairly catchy song which hopefully wouldn't get too annoying after repetitive plays!

We then reproduced a storyboard for how the final storyboard would have been produced. This left us with around a minute of the video fully drawn out and recreated shot-by-shot, frame-by-frame. Then we put together the frames with a camera and edited the transition and timings for each frame so they were an exact, frame-by-frame replica of the original music video.

I will be doing this for my own storyboard which is to be created now that I have my band/main ideas for the music video. I will be doing everything the same including making sure that i have the timings right, edited to the music. The only difference is that it is my own work and my own ideas instead of copying a finnished article, which is difficult and challenging, yet exciting as my video will be a more vidusal, real project.

The shots range from close ups of girls dancing and the rappers/ main woman singing. On top of this their are long shots to show the whole band Roll Deep. Also, mid shots are used to show "Wiley" in the car, this also fits this genre lifestyle as he is in a fast, expensive car.

Underneath is the actual video that we copied the first 1:18 from:

End of Plotline

following on from previous blog...

1) He makes up with the girlfriend after promising her he wont let drink come in the way of their relationship again

2) The male then decides to go and restore his relationship with his two friends which is succesful

3) Ends with the protagonist against the wall again (equilibrium restored)

This will conclude the video and has many features of a moral and a normal story which I believe will be identifiable for the target audience. Now i will storyboard my idea into proper camera shots and create an animatic. This will then allow me to schedule filming and get location/character ideas up and running.

Middle

Following on from the previous blog....


1) Annoyed and frustrated he starts to deal with his emotions by drinking harder and becoming drunk

2) As the male becomes extremely drunk, he becomes disorderly and a mess, resulting in him being thrown out of the friends house onto the street

3) He wanders the streets drunk and alone, before collecting himself by the wall that was shown in the very first shot

4) He then walks determindly to the house of his Girlfriend in an attempt to make up with her

I believe this sets up the problem and the overcoming of a problem, very stereotypical of a plotline in any story - (Todorovs theory)

Plot and Video breakdown: Beginning

In this post I will be explaining in more detail the shots that I'm going to use for the beginning of the music video. After this, I will be doing the middle and the end with the storyboard/created animatic finishing off the preparation stage of the project. After this is complete, I will be doing a filming schedule as well as location, character and props analysis.

Shots:

1) Shot of a male standing against a wall, which cuts to a car pulling up and two of the Male's friends saying hello

2) The male gets into the car and drives around with his two friends before they pull up at a separate location and enter the house

3)The three friends start to casually drink beer and generally playing about with games consoles etc etc

4) The protagonists girlfriend phones up, however he rejects the call and continues having fun with his mates (this suggests there has been a previous argument or a neglect of the girlfriend for some reason)

5) Again and again the girlfriend calls and this results with him eventually picking up the phone, having a slightly drunken argument with her and throwing the phone down

This beginning attempts to show a rift in the relationship and how the protagonists enjoyable time with his friends turns into someone deciding to drink until they are heavily drunk. This attempts to also show the decision in a negative light.

How i'm going to employ intertextuality

I have taken inspiration from an image taken from the front of Devlin’s Album “Bud, Sweat and beers.”




I think the image is poignant and has connotations of an urban, home-grown British sound. This idea is currently popular in England because music lovers are beginning to prefer this authenticity to the “commercial acts” that are currently in the charts.

The image of the artist being in front of a brick wall is simplistic, can be used repetitively and can be identified with by the audience. It can also be used as a canvas to write the name of the artist and the song in bold lettering as to highlight this, which will help from an advertising viewpoint. This image can be used through all of my forms of media, as used, as I have discussed previously, by The Streets with their lighter logo.